The next Music Night at Sunbury Cricket Club is on Friday 11th April and features the welcome return after a gap of two years of the great British bluesman DAVE KELLY. Dave has been a leading figure on the UK and international blues scene for several decades, and one of the country’s finest slide guitarists, who has attracted sell-out audiences on previous visits to the Club, both solo and with his band.
He was with The John Dummer Blues Band in the ‘60s blues boom alongside his late lamented sister Jo-Ann Kelly, and toured the UK with John Lee Hooker and Howlin’ Wolf before he and Jo Ann formed Tramp with Tony McPhee. In 1979 he founded The Blues Band with Paul Jones, Hughie Flint & Tom McGuinness, former members of Manfred Mann and McGuinness Flint, and for over 40 years until they called it a day in 2021, they were the UK’s top blues attraction. He is also a regular at festivals, club and concert dates across Europe and in the USA and Canada.
Dave won the British Blues Awards Top Acoustic Artist for five years running, until they stopped entering him! As a singer and guitarist steeped in the blues for a lifetime, his repertoire draws on classics from across the genre as well as his own material.
As at his last show at the club, Dave will be performing solo, and an evening of spell-binding and high-class entertainment from one of the greats of British blues can be guaranteed.
It's £10.00 on the door payable by cash or card. Hot food, prepared by the expert chefs from our resident caterers from the community food distribution organisation Surplus To Supper, will be available as usual from about 6.30pm, and Dave will be on stage around 8.30 or soon after.
